High Blood pressure

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August 11, 2008 (Dallas, TX) — Studies and research regarding the

chiropractic adjustment are being performed more and more to show the

validity of chiropractic. WebMD has recently released information

showing a special chiropractic adjustment called the Atlas

Adjustment, can significantly lower high blood pressure. " This

procedure has the effect of not one, but two blood-pressure

medications given in combination, " study leader George Bakris, MD,

told WebMD. " And it seems to be adverse-event free. We saw no side

effects and no problems, " added Dr. Bakris, director of the

University of Chicago hypertension center.

 

Research showed that eight weeks after undergoing the procedure, 25

patients with early-stage high blood pressure had significantly lower

blood pressure than 25 similar patients who underwent a sham

chiropractic adjustment. Because patients are unable to feel the

technique, they could not tell which group they were in.

 

WebMD reported that patients that got the real procedure saw an

average 14 mm Hg greater drop in systolic blood pressure and an

average 8 mm Hg greater drop in diastolic blood pressure. None of

the patients took blood pressure medicine during the eight-week study.

 

Dr. Marshall Dickholtz Sr., DC, of the Chiropractic Health Center, in

Chicago, performed all of the procedures in the study. He calls the

Atlas vertebra " the fuse box to the body. "

 

Dr. Bakris notes that some researchers have suggested that injury to

the Atlas vertebra can affect blood flow in the arteries at the base

of the skull. Dr. Dickholtz thinks the misaligned triggers release

of signals that make the arteries contract. Whether the procedure

actually fixes the injuries is unknown, Bakris says.

 

WebMD reported that Dr. Bakris began the study after a fellow doctor

told him that something strange was happening in his family

practice. The doctor had been sending some of his patients to a

chiropractor. Some of these patients had high blood pressure, but

after seeing the chiropractor, the patients' blood pressure had

normalized – and a few of them were able to stop taking their blood

pressure medications.

 

Dr. Dickholtz has been teaching, practicing, and studying the NUCCA

technique for 50 years. High blood pressure is far from the only

thing an Atlas misalignment causes. On the other hand, if people

have high blood pressure, there is a tremendous possibility they need

an Atlas adjustment, " he says.

 

Dr. Bakris is now organizing a much bigger clinical trial on this

same subject.